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Band-Box Sewing Box, with Fran Phillips
Tuesday, August 24 & Wednesday, August 25: 9 A.M.–1 P.M.
Member $175; Nonmember $225
The bandbox was a familiar form of storage for nearly a hundred years, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Focus will be on a box with lid and divided drop-in tray, as suited to holding your embroidery as it is for jewelry storage. Learn the methods of box construction and use of paper and paste. Choose from papers, old book pages or sheet music, or bring your own. Parchment on Washington Street offers a discount on all papers purchased for this class.
All materials provided. Maximum class size: 10
Frances E. Phillips is the Phillips half of Mulligan & Phillips, Decorative Painters, Bloomfield, New Jersey and is an adjunct art professor at Seton Hall University; long interested in American folk art and decorative arts, she teaches such skills as tramp art, bandboxes, vinegar graining, gilding, and tinsel painting. She has taught at the American Museum of Folk Art in New York City, at the Queens Museum of Art, and at historical and crafts organizations. Her work has been shown in Country Living and Today’s Homeowner.
